The elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were discovered by scientists in Japan, Russia and America, and are the first to be added to the table since 2011. They were verified on Dec. 30:- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/periodic-table-new-elements_568a346ae4b0b958f65c09b8- http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10707100/elements-added-to-periodic-table-discovery-confirmed- http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/04/periodic-tables-seventh-row-finally-filled-as-four-new-elements-are-added?CMP=fb_us- Scroll down to the bottom of this article and there’s a decay diagram:http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2015/20151231_1/

My response commentary related to elements or subatomic particles:

-If you have a scale model of an atom, the nucleus would be about the size of a decimal point. The electrons would be a mile or 2 away. I think that the scientist saying this is named Michio Kaku. 99.999% of an atom is empty unless it’s in a neutron star, quark star, or black hole.-The Higgs Boson (The God Particle) was originally called The Goddamn particle. CERN is now looking for a more elusive particle.-Anti-matter is made of protons that are negatively charged & electrons that are positively charged. I saw an article about a year ago that that there have been 100, 200, or 300 atoms of anti-hydrogen & anti-helium observed. When matter & anti-matter collide, they obliterate each other. There could be an entire theoretical periodic table of anti-matter.-More than 90% of the universe is dark matter & dark energy. There may be an entire periodic table of dark matter that we haven’t discovered!?-We are not Muslims. In about the year 700 or 800 in Arabia, it was believed that were 14 or 16 elements. Arabs sometimes were blacksmiths or swordsmiths. But they called it alchemy instead of chemistry.-Aluminum is an element taking up about 10% of the Earth’s crust, but “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” said that it wasn’t discovered until the 1800s.-In The English translation of Genesis, Lott’s wife turns into a pillar of salt. Salt is sodium chloride. A woman is 98.9% carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, & phosphorus. Sodium & chloride are part of the 1.1%. She couldn’t have had a chemical reaction turning into salt.-Uranium eventually decays into lead. It has a half-life of 4.5 or 4.6 billion years. I saw an article than a particular chemist uses a uranium ore rock as a door stop. Inhaling or eating uranium would cause effects about the same as inhaling or eating lead.-The Big Bang created radiation, hydrogen, & helium. The first supernovas created elements up to lead. The second generation of supernovas created elements from lead up to uranium, or to neptunium, or to plutonium. Any elements heavier than plutonium have a shorter half-life.-This is weird. On the topic of 4 elements, here’s “Prank caller or Mr $H!T for brains:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Mq6z6sOX4 I was looking for a shorter, briefer, funnier, Atheist Experience video of a different caller saying to Matt Dillahunty that The Bible proves that there are 4 elements. The caller said that The Bible proves that there are 4 elements of time, space, matter, & energy because of Genesis 1:1. He said, “In The Beginning (time), God (energy) created The Heavens (space) & Earth (matter).” Then one of the hosts said that there are over 100 elements. Then the caller said, “What?” Then the hosts smiled saying, “Nobody is this stupid or this douchy. You’re a troll.” They hung up.

In Computer Science or Mathematics news On January 18 or 19, a new Mersenne prime had been made public! It’s over 22 million digits: http://primes.utm.edu/top20/page.php?id=3 I think it would be over 7,000 pages in Microsoft Word!

In the news for January 20, a brown dwarf star or ninth planet may be found with 5,000 times the mass of Pluto: http://news.yahoo.com/ninth-planet-may-exist-solar-system-us-scientists-174753045.html I read in Discover magazine about 5 years ago that scientists think that Neptune in the early solar system may have had gravity that slingshot a planet out of the visible solar system. This may or may not be it.

That article includes an artist's simulation of what would happen if it was only 18 million times as far away from the Sun as Earth and were apparently about as bright as the Sun from Earth. It reminds me that The Hiroshima uranium bomb was hotter than the Sun's surface. If you had one eye open and looked at the Hiroshima explosion, the radiation would damage your eye proteins, damage your eye cell DNA, and there would be a delayed reaction where you'd go blind.

If the Sun weighs 300,000 or 333,333 Earths and it's accurate, then the black hole or quasar is 40 billion * 300,000 times the weight of the Earth!

My understanding is that a quasar is a black hole-like object that formed before the universe was 1 billion years old, and it's light took 11 or 12 billion years to reach us because it's 11 or 12 billion light years away. It probably rotted away by radioactive fission, or had a supernova in the last 12 billion years.